Karan A. DiNardo, PMP
Bridgewater, NJ 08807
E-mail: *********@*********.***
Professional Experience:
Consultant: 2008-2010
Professional Services Group:
. As part of the Professional Services Group: co-chaired the
administrative committee. The co-chair of this committee was
responsible to coordinate the search of a new facility to host the
meetings of 100+ members, lead meetings, delegated action items,
maintained project plan for committee, gave presentations of progress
and was successful in our mission.
AVtech Institute:
. Complete Project Management Certification Class and obtain PMP
certification
. Complete Oracle Database Administration Class
Tollgrade Communications
Project Manager 2004-2008
. Manage Information Technology project plans and guide team from
inception through design, development and testing of plans.
. Utilize software life-cycle methodology
. Ensure team awareness of expectations and goals as defined by Senior
Management and periodically update team regarding any key changes in
progression of project plan; make adjustments to level of
staff/consultants as project process may require
. Deliver periodic status reports detailing analytical results and
project matters requiring further testing
. Maintain continuous information exchange with team regarding any
modifications or crises and subsequently devise solutions
. Establish optimal project expectations as a group and by each team
member
. Coach, motivate and supervise junior project team members and
contractors. Encourage high level of productivity and accountability
. Cultivate key business relationships essential to the success of the
project.
. Coordinate delivery of project beta and production releases that meet
quality assurance standards per ISO 9000
. Perform project follow up reviews to summarize all project elements
upon completion as well as to analyze strengths and any errors
encountered from inception to completion of work
. Coordinated with internal and external parties to organize the various
components needed to initiate, run and conclude major projects.
. Possess excellent communications skills and extensive knowledge of
database and project management software.
. Familiar and possess working knowledge of the following project
management processes: Project Integration, Project Scope Management,
Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Project Quality
Management, Project Human Resource Management, Project Communications
Management, Project Risk Management, Project Procurement Management
. Customer focused, highly organized self-starter with effective
customer solutions, build relationships and communicate solutions
strategy and product offerings and provide technical expertise,
support, and training to sales and customers.
. Solutions-driven professional with extensive experience in project
management and designing/ implementing technical solutions.
. Articulate communicator who can fluently speak the languages of both
people and technology, blending technical expertise with exceptional
interpersonal skills while interacting effectively with customers,
sales staff, and technical/engineering teams
. Experienced in delegation of tasks to various departments for
cooperative fabrications of installation kits
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Software Development 2001-2008
. Draft architecture, design, database modeling, create database schema
for each feature release based on system engineering documents
. Periodically conduct architectural review with engineers on project,
adjust changes accordingly and install document in source code control
. Design user interface with Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, store procedures,
triggers, packages and views
. Build UNIX Shell and AWK scripts to aide system testers and to
automate development build process
. Create SQL and Perl scripts for support team upon demand; modify SQL
scripts to produce SQL reports for specific features
. Produce views driven by systems engineering documents
. Prepare database design for review and implement schema
. Resolve Oracle issues with Developer 2000, opened TAR, created debug
scripts; ensure follow through to resolution via Metalink
. Perform patch updates to Oracle developer 2000
. Latest Oracle release was Oracle 10g
. Object Oriented Design Methodology
. C++, Java coding in a client/server environment
AT&T Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
Member of Technical Staff 1995-2001
. Create systems engineering requirement document after meeting with
customer and determining desired feature enhancements.
. Design and develop application interface using JavaScript, C++ (Object
Oriented design).
. Build UNIX Shell and Perl scripts during development cycle
. Train international customers on user interface development
. Create and execute unit test plan for user interface
. Participate in system test plan execution
. On-site manager providing superior customer support as on-site AT&T
representative
.
Technical Experience:
Hardware: Sun Sparcstation, HP 11i, IBM-PC
Software: UNIX Operating System, PC-NT, Windows XP, C, C++, C
Shell, Bourne Shell, MS Word, MS Excel, PL/SQL
scripts, sqlplus, Oracle Forms 6i/9i. JavaScript,
Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g, Object Oriented Design, UNIX
Shell Scripting on HP and Sun Platforms, Perl
Scripting, Java
Education:
B.S. Computer Science/Math The
College of Staten Island
PMP Certification 2009
Completed PMP course and Completed Oracle DBA course, 2009
AVTECH Institute of Technology (South Plainfield, NJ)